When Are Ideas Ready?
Okay as you may have guessed, this little conceptual ranting is going to be a little on the far side of the moon--where according to one of our childhood nursery rhymes the cow jumped over. I've stood outside on many a night and stared upat the moon and while I believe in achievement , that's a pretty tall order even for some of your best cows like the ones you see in southern Wisconsin. Okay back to the original point.
Finding Peace and Joy is not always simple. Circumstances get "nearly impossible" at times. You know it's like finding a needle in a hay stack... What does that mean? Since when, if ever, was a haystack a common place to be hanging out with when we had needles? Was it a favorite hang out for seamstresses on the prairie? Did from time to time little Becky run in the cabin and say "Pa? I can't seem to find my needle. Have you seen it around here?" Then did Pa reply, "You probably should go check the haystacks you know the ladies from town were out there quilting last night until the cows came home." I don't know but we still use the phrase and some of my midwestern friends will probably make the point that I use it from time to time and they'll throw me under the bus.... Oh and exactly what technique does one need to use to throw someone under a bus? Is it sort of a two-handed overhead slam thing or is it more of a side armed underhanded toss? It seems we should be throwing people in front of the bus because hitting a small space like that is a pretty tricky deal and a moving target with a body and all. I don't know the trajectory would be a challenge.
So.. again back to the peace and joy? I like to write these things early in the morning when there is not a lot of noise and very little talking, especially me talking, and yesterday when I looked at the page view count I felt a bit honored that people have been reading along--I'm not always proud of my effort... but this isn't always as #Seth Godin reminded me in his post the other day "like shooting fish in a barrel." For as he inquired "how do these fish get into the barrel in the first place— isn't that the tricky part?" I agree that would be tricky, however, I also wonder about the whole shooting part. What type of weapon would a person use? If you were pretty tall and the barrel were sort of short a bow and arrow might be the way to go and then again an arrow might not do so well in the water. A aslingshot might be good so that you didn’t wind up with a hole in your fish. Then again a nice hole right through the center might be great because you could put it on a stick and cook it over a campfire .
Anyway I’m going to try to wrap this up. The cool thing is language sometimes gets in the way and yet we have overcome many barriers to teaching our children how to talk and they have taught us how to text . and somehow we get the message across so my message for today is my idea for tomorrow wasn’t quite ready so I gave you this What you need to know about this is these phrases are a conversation that my brother Don and I talk about occasionally and so if you’ve smiled at all you Owe that smile to him today By the way what is this elusive topic for tomorrow —building the peace and joy network and it will be a two or three day sort of series that I hope most of you well enjoy then again I hope you enjoyed today
Survive the Wednesday weirdness and find some peace and joy come what may Yes we can get
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